Pilgrim_UK Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 (edited) About bloody time too . Now is that Revels 1:30 scale or the normal scale. http://www.plastik-modellbau.org/blog/revell-neuheiten-2013/2013/ Edited January 2, 2013 by Pilgrim_UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunpowder17 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Wahoo , lets hope its up to the standard of the Tie fighter , or better. I need it NOW!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeley Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Further down the page there is Bagger 289 - the brother of Bagger 288 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelvk Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Ooh, now I'll have one of those!! The White knight (or whatever that Virgin spaceship carrier thing is called) looks awesome too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Kesterton Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Oooh! Virgin Galactic spaceplane will be on my list too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigh827 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 !/35 or 1/32 would have been much more use full. You can mod lots of figures and equipment in those scales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 !/35 or 1/32 would have been much more use full. You can mod lots of figures and equipment in those scales.  Well, let's wait and see what we get from Revell. They haven't been too accurate with their scaling on the Star Wars stuff in the past (for instance, their TIE Fighter was much larger than the scale that they quoted). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerbannog Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I wonder if the weired scales of the Revell Star Wars kits has something to do with their licence - I can imagine that Fine Molds has a licence for the common scales and Revell simply not. If this is so I would not be too accurate with the scale too. I would maybe announce 1:30 but come close to 1:32... Furthermore I think it is pretty dificult to give the correct size of Sci-Fi stuff, so as long as a 1:32 or even 1:35 scale figure does not look out of place next to the 1:30 X-Wing I should not care... yet these odd scales annoy me as well as they make the whole thing appear a bit toyish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigh827 Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I wonder if the weired scales of the Revell Star Wars kits has something to do with their licence - I can imagine that Fine Molds has a licence for the common scales and Revell simply not. If this is so I would not be too accurate with the scale too. I would maybe announce 1:30 but come close to 1:32... Furthermore I think it is pretty dificult to give the correct size of Sci-Fi stuff, so as long as a 1:32 or even 1:35 scale figure does not look out of place next to the 1:30 X-Wing I should not care... yet these odd scales annoy me as well as they make the whole thing appear a bit toyish. Fine Molds went for one scale as that's what people want, Revell went with box scale so size jumps around from kit to kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerbannog Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 The box scale certainly gives Revell the possibility to offer subjects of very different "1:1" sizes in similar model sizes and so to sell them all in a quite similar price range. As Revell will sell the most of their SW kits to kids they probably find the box scale an advantage. I have only some Revell SW kits and have none build yet. But the Jedi Starfighter has some toyish areas (wingfolds,...), and I doubt it will be very "screen accurate". But I thought the Landspeeder looks so simple that I just could not convince myself to buy it (even at a very discounted price). So the longer I think about it the more I am convinced that FM and Revell have simply completely different ambitions: FM wants to please the "mature" scale modellers (hooray for FM!) while Revell is doing some PR for the hobby and wants to please the young to become scale modellers (hooray for Revell...). Still - I wish Revell could use "common" scales and not box scale - It should work too and would probably please more potential customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigh827 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 I have a lot of friends at Star Ship Modeler who wish Revell went with one scale. I have two of the the ARC 170's, nice kits, but would have been nice if they came with an R2 unit instead of a black spot on the roof, ment to look like the hole the R2 goes in to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerbannog Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Well maybe Revell will change their mind on the box-scale. I would be happy too. Hope someone from revell is reading this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmodai Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Seems to be a Revell kind of thing, since they did the non standard scale thing with the Star Trek Enterprise kit discussed elsewhere in this forum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigh827 Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Seems to be a Revell kind of thing, since they did the non standard scale thing with the Star Trek Enterprise kit discussed elsewhere in this forum... They were staying close to the scale of the MPC/AMT kits from 1966, which are 1/650 scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caution Wake Turbulence Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Easykit? According to the new catalogue.....€50 seems like a lot for a snap together kit! Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty_hopkirk Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 (edited) I wonder if the weired scales of the Revell Star Wars kits has something to do with their licence - I can imagine that Fine Molds has a licence for the common scales and Revell simply not. If this is so I would not be too accurate with the scale too. I would maybe announce 1:30 but come close to 1:32... Furthermore I think it is pretty dificult to give the correct size of Sci-Fi stuff, so as long as a 1:32 or even 1:35 scale figure does not look out of place next to the 1:30 X-Wing I should not care... yet these odd scales annoy me as well as they make the whole thing appear a bit toyish. This is correct. Fine Molds have released X Wing in 72 and 48 and on the balance of probabilities they are almost certainly have an option on a 32 scale kit, but chosen not exercise it yet. Not a huge issue as sci-fi scales are open to interpretation anyway and there is no reason why it should not be good. It'll not be the scale that decides if it makes up into a good model or not. Marty... Edited March 3, 2013 by marty_hopkirk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty_hopkirk Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Easykit? According to the new catalogue.....€50 seems like a lot for a snap together kit! Andrew Have you seen their other Easykits? I would argue they represent good value for money. Marty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caution Wake Turbulence Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Have you seen their other Easykits? I would argue they represent good value for money. Marty... No, fair point. I was just surprised, that's all. I'll get back in my box now... Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew March Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 I do wish they wouldn't use images of peoples 3d models without thier permission! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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